Firm Quotes - Page 34

• Since time immemorial, youth has set the universal standard of physical beauty, and the reason is simply that a shapely firm young face and body are more attractive sexually and aesthetically than bulges, sags and wrinkles.

  Hugh Hefner

  Wrinkles, Body, Faces

  Interview with Larry Dubois, iplayboy.com. January 1, 1974.

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• To be energetic and firm where principle demands it, and tolerant in all else, is not easy. It is not easy to abhor wickedness, and oppose it with every energy, and at the same time to have the meekness and gentleness of Christ, becoming all things to all men for the truth's sake. The energy of patience, the most godlike of all, is not easy.

  Mark Hopkins

  Men, Energy, Principles

  Mark Hopkins (1884). “Teachings and Counsels: Twenty Baccalaureate Sermons; with a Discourse on President Garfield”

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• I'm a very firm believer that a liar is a cheat and a thief and a crook. I don't like liars. I never lie. I always told my own child, "If you murder somebody, tell me. I'll help you hide the body. But don't you lie to me.

  Leona Helmsley

  Children, Liars, Lying

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• Our ancestors, when about to build a town or an army post, sacrificed some of the cattle that were wont to feed on the site proposed and examined their livers. If the livers of the first victims were dark-coloured or abnormal, they sacrificed others, to see whether the fault was due to disease or their food. They never began to build defensive works in a place until after they had made many such trials and satisfied themselves that good water and food had made the liver sound and firm, healthfulness being their chief object.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Dark, Army, Water

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter IV, Section 9,

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• The Court is perhaps one of the last citadels of jealously preserved individualism. For the most part, we function as nine, small independent law firms.

  Colin Powell

  Independent, Law, Nine

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• This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity, since it has such a remembrance of the best, such a concern for the future, since it is enriched with so many arts, sciences, and discoveries, it is impossible but the being which contains all these must be immortal.

  Cato the Younger

  Art, Discovery, Remembrance

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• The approach to the offices of Girdlestone and Co. was not a very dignified one, nor would the uninitiated who traversed it form any conception of the commercial prosperity of the firm in question.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Book, Office, Prosperity

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2010). “The Firm of Girdlestone”, p.7, The Floating Press

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• [on the theory of the firm] It is exactly analogous to the analysis of the reactions of a consumer by means of indifferent curves. Indeed, a consumer is merely a 'firm' whose product is 'utility.'

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Mean, Curves, Analysis

  "The theory of the firm in the last ten Years" by Kenneth E. Boulding in "The American Economic Review", Volume 32, No. 4 (pp. 791-802), December 1942.

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• Although a firm swat could bring a recalcitrant child swiftly into line, the changes were usually external, lasting only as long as the swatter remained in view....Permanent transformation had to be internal....The habits of self discipline, as laborious and frustrating as they were to achieve, offered the only real possibility of keeping children safe from their own excesses as well as the omnipresent dangers of society.

  Mary Blakely

  Children, Real, Self

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• Will customers keep supporting the enormous overhead required to sustain ineffectual, unproductive stock picking across an array of thousands of individual funds devoted to every investing 'style' and economic sector or regional subgroup that some marketing idiot can dream up? Not likely. A brutal shakeout is coming and one of its revelations will be that stock picking is a grossly overrated piece of the puzzle, that cost control is what distinguishes a competitive firm from an uncompetitive one.

  Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

  Dream, Style, Marketing

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• Knowing the importance of luck, you should be particularly suspicious when highly consistent patterns emerge from the comparison of successful and less successful firms. In the presence of randomness, regular patterns can only be mirages.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Successful, Knowing, Luck

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.236, Macmillan

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• The aged oak upon the steep stands more firm and secure if assailed by angry winds; for if the winter bares its head, the more strongly it strikes its roots into the ground, acquiring strength as it loses beauty.

  Pietro Metastasio

  Winter, Roots, Wind

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• When one hears the argument that marriage should be indissoluble for the sake of children, one cannot help wondering whether the protagonist is really such a firm friend of childhood.

  Suzanne La Follette

  Children, Childhood, Sake

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• Nothing can be more delicate without being fantastical, nothing more firm and based in nature and sentiment, than the courtship and mutual carriage of the sexes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sex, Carriages, Courtship

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.317, Penguin

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• Indeed we do not really live unless we have friends surrounding us like a firm wall against the winds of the world.

  Charles Hanson Towne

  Friendship, Wall, Wind

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• ...how little our side of the industry did to move its business to the more ethical firms and to make a fuss about conflicted or unethical behavior. Had a number of us moved our business, we might have slowed or even stopped the 30-year slide in conflicted, unethical behavior that we have experienced. I, for one, regret the modest nature of our moves. We all could have done more. We have tolerated a pretty nasty decline in standards. Shame on us.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Regret, Moving, Numbers

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• We shall not fail - if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate, or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wise, Mistake, Victory

  A House Divided, delivered 16 June 1858, Springfield, Illinois

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• The principles of pleasure are not firm and stable. They are different in all mankind, and variable in every particular with such a diversity that there is no man more different from
  another than from himself at different times.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Diversity, Principles

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.409, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Rock is a great master of life. It teaches us this simple philosophy: Stay firm!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Philosophy, Simple

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• Self-immolation as a way to protest against the injustices or as a way to fight for freedom cannot be accepted! All the fights must be done in the dimension of existence! Your body is your road to everywhere; if you destroy it, you lose all the roads! Stay firm and fight alive; no cause is more valuable than a man's life! Keep your body out of the fire! Don't ever praise the self-immolations; condemn them! Suicide is a defeat! Power is to fight, to fight peacefully, and not to die in agony!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Suicide, Freedom

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• There is one thing sure about life: Life will push us hardly many times! When you are pushed, don't be surprised; stay firm like a plane tree or be elastic like a bamboo!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Tree, Bamboo

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• The good, supreme, divine poetry is above the rules and reason. Whoever discerns its beauty with a firm, sedate gaze does not see it, any more than he sees the splendor of a lightning flash. It does not persuade our judgement, it ravishes and overwhelms it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Judgement, Lightning, Doe

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.171, Stanford University Press

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• Responsibility is something higher than my family, my country, my firm, my success. Responsibility to the order of Being, where, and only where, they will be properly judged.

  Vaclav Havel

  Country, Responsibility, Order

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• What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Tears, Forests, Opinion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.378

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• I was 18 and making 150 quid a week, which was a lot of money to me. Then there was a bad winter and I got paid off. Then my firm, JW Henderson of Bowling Green Street, Leith, went bust. If they hadn't folded, I'd probably still be scaffolding and loving it.

  Jamie Sives

  Winter, Green, Bowling

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